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I want to follow up on what John Mason said on the IT front. The new financial memorandum says that from “2023-24 through to 2025-26 costs are significantly lower than previously estimated”.
The Scottish Commission for Human Rights Act 2006 establishes that our statutory duty is to "promote human 6 rights and, in particular, to encourage best practice in relation to human rights."
A key step in that will be the procurement of new audit software during 2025-26. Modernisation is a crucial element in ensuring that public audit is effective and sustainable in the longer term.
We waste too much energy and we still construct our buildings as though energy is cheap to use. There have been improvements in energy efficiency standards in new builds, but that must go further.
I welcome Jackie Dunbar to the committee in her capacity as a newly appointed committee substitute and invite her to declare any relevant interests. Thank you, convener. To the best of my knowledge, I have no interests to declare.
The Government will continue to make sure that our NHS staff are the best paid in the whole of the UK. We move to general and constituency supplementary questions.
Our emerging proposal to deal with this, is to maintain the programme for handover of the ship by the end of May latest, initially running only with the diesel, single fuel system.
I am personally chairing the cancer improvement group, which is looking at rolling out some of the best practice that we see—for example, in NHS Lanarkshire, which is meeting the 62-day target.